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Big Little Lies – Season 1, Episode 3 Living the Dream

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Big Little Lies – Season 1, Episode 3

Living the Dream

Aired Mar 5, 2017

Drama

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In an effort to get under Renata's skin, Madeline organizes a trip to compete with Amabella's birthday party; Celeste falls for Perry's charms before their first session with the therapist; Principal Nippal announces the Fall Gala Fundraiser theme.

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Big Little Lies continues to flush out its leading ladies, but it's becoming clear that not everyone is "Living the Dream."

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Reese Witherspoon

Madeline Martha Mackenzie

Nicole Kidman

Celeste Wright

Shailene Woodley

Jane Chapman

Laura Dern

Renata Klein

Zoë Kravitz

Bonnie Carlson

Alexander Skarsgård

Perry Wright

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Angelica Jade Bastién

Refinery29

08/30/2017

Director Jean-Marc Vallée and writer David E. Kelley take all the attributes of the most impossible version of 'having it all' - great wealth, beauty, precocious kids, beachfront property - and twist them into horror

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Nate Waggoner

Observer

04/05/2017

This episode is kind of a snooze compared to the first two- nothing new is introduced, it's just more developments of the plot elements we already know.

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Alex Abad-Santos

Vox

04/05/2017

It traffics in sudsy moments that feel a world away. Yet it also trades in a sober truth: that everything parents do affects their children's lives in some way. It's also boldly unafraid to show how men can harm women.

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Gill Crawford

Radio Times

05/31/2019

Desperate housewives, indeed. And utterly compelling television.

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Lacy Baugher

The Tracking Board

06/25/2018

The dynamics between these women, and their struggles with their own personal demons are much better television than any old murder investigation.

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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

Tom & Lorenzo

06/19/2018

It's not just the real estate porn or the melodrama or the highly defined costume design that makes it so good. It's the long, silent scenes allowing these actresses to just do their craft.

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Synopsis

In an effort to get under Renata's skin, Madeline organizes a trip to compete with Amabella's birthday party; Celeste falls for Perry's charms before their first session with the therapist; Principal Nippal announces the Fall Gala Fundraiser theme.

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Executive Producer: Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea, Nicole Kidman, Per Saari, David E. Kelley, Jean-Marc Vallée, Nathan Ross, Gregg Fienberg
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Mar 5, 2017